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Razer has just revealed their new ultra-lightweight wireless gaming mouse, the Viper V2 Pro. It weighs just 58g, making it 16g lighter than the Viper Ultimate that launched in 2019, and it achieves this without having any holes drilled into the shell. The mouse comes equipped with Razer’s new Focus Pro 30K optical sensor, which the company claims can work even on glass surfaces. The Viper V2 Pro also features upgraded Optical Gen-3 switches rated for up to 90 million clicks....

A specific DDoS operation known as a “reflection attack” is again finding widespread use by cyber-criminals, abusing unprotected Microsoft servers to overload targeted websites with traffic. Black Lotus Labs notes the culprit is the Microsoft variant of the industry-standard Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) known as CLDAP. The LDAP protocol is used to access and maintain distributed directory information services (like a central system to store usernames and passwords) over an IP network....

The TRS-80 (short for Tandy RadioShack) debuted for $599.95 at RadioShack stores across the country as one of the few affordable, fully assembled machines on the market. The computer was a hit, and came at just the right time as Tandy was in the middle of a sales slump. Within just a few years, Tandy represented 40 percent of the small-computer market. Roach became chairman and CEO after the death of Charles D....

Starting March 29, GTA Online players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles will be able to sign up to GTA+. For $5.99 a month, they’ll receive monthly bonuses of in-game currency and the ability to claim unique properties, vehicle upgrades, and cosmetics. Upon signing up, subscribers will immediately get $500,000 of in-game money and receive that amount again every month. The perks for the first month, ending April 27, include a car with a complimentary upgrade, a yacht upgrade, multiplied rewards for races, additional bonus money from “GTA+ Shark Cards,” and more....

Krebs on Security reports that the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service last month announced it planned to use incarcerated IT specialists sentenced to forced labor as remote workers for domestic commercial companies, a plan that had been proposed by Russian businessmen struggling to fulfill IT roles. Russian state media reports that almost 95,000 IT vacancies have remained unfulfilled in Russia since March 21. And while that is 25% lower than the previous month, the shrinkage is only due to companies postponing projects following budgetary reviews—Western sanctions undoubtedly played a part, too....

Whereas NAND is usually built horizontally (flat), this limits density. V-NAND builds upwards making it horizontal and vertical, hence 3D, allowing Samsung to stack layer upon layer of transistors (cells) to greatly improve density. Additionally, while other manufactures are pushing 20nm NAND or smaller, Samsung is able to get away with the 40nm process. On top of improving density, endurance and performance, this new design also helps to reduce production costs....

The only setting that Samsung hasn’t hidden is HDR mode, which once again is fantastic on the Galaxy Note 4. In scenarios with lots of shadows or high contrast, enabling HDR mode really brings out the detail in these areas. Samsung continues to be a leader with mobile HDR technology, and thanks to the latest hardware you also get a live HDR camera preview, allowing you to see exactly what the camera will capture....

The S7 Edge was marginally faster than the Galaxy S6 at loading apps and performing basic tasks like applying Instagram filters in a side-by-side comparison. In general, though, I don’t expect users to notice a significant day-to-day performance difference between the S7 Edge and the Galaxy S6. Moving from a two-year-old device like the Galaxy S5 will show larger performance differences, as the Exynos 8890 and Snapdragon 820 are significantly faster than the Snapdragon 801....

As expected, the 850 Evo 2TB was able to max out the SATA 6Gb/s bus when measuring sequential read speed with a throughput of 528MB/s. We see the 850 Evo 2TB finding the limits of the SATA 6Gb/s bus again when measuring sequential write performance. The 850 Evo 500GB demonstrated strong random 512K read performance back when we first tested it and the 2TB model is able to build on that, reaching an impressive 470MB/s....

We now know a few things that we’d suspected for a while: Ryzen 5 is the same physical chip as Ryzen 7, so all models have two CCXs, each with four physicals cores, though not all of them are enabled. The six-core models have one core disabled from each CCX, while the quad-core parts disable two cores per CCX. Since reviewing Ryzen 7, we’ve been meaning to explore the downcore functionality found in the BIOS of all AM4 motherboards....

The Smartphone Processor is Irrelevant During this year’s smartphone reveals, barely anyone was talking about the processors in their latest smartphones. In Samsung’s hour-long launch event for the Galaxy S9, they completely glossed over the inclusion of the latest and greatest Snapdragon and Exynos SoCs inside, not mentioning either chip or their capabilities at all. Sony dedicated a few brief sentences on the Snapdragon 845 in their launch of the Xperia XZ2, but focused primarily on Gigabit LTE rather than the performance capabilities of the new CPU and GPU....

The stable version of iOS 15.4 was released to sixth-generation iPhones and later last week. One of the most talked-about features it adds is the ability for FaceID to recognize faces even when people are wearing masks. It also brings over 100 new emojis, an Apple card widget, a new voice option for Siri, and more. But, as is so often the case with major operating system updates, some users are running into issues that weren’t there before the installation....

For people who have a soft spot for first-person shooter games and hardware hacking, the first question that pops into their mind when stumbling upon any piece of technology is, “Does it run Doom?” People have gotten the classic FPS to work on anything resembling digital technology, including a humble Lego brick equipped with a tiny microcontroller and a digital pregnancy test display. One reason for this never-ending obsession is that the original Doom didn’t need the most powerful computer to run....

You may have heard of a programmer named Felix Rieseberg. He was Slack’s senior staff engineer and engineering manager before moving on to work for financial infrastructure builder Stripe. He also helps maintain Electron. Electron is an open-source framework that uses web technologies to build desktop applications. Specifically, Electron takes programs written in Javascript with a Node.js backend and renders them in a Chrome engine — not to be mistaken for the standalone Chrome browser....

There’s nothing wrong with having a 1080p display in a modern flagship, though you lose out on a small amount of extra clarity that 1440p display provides, I’d be more concerned if the display was larger, but at 5.0-inches I have no complaints about the sharpness of the X Performance’s. The only potential downside to having a lower resolution is in virtual reality applications, where the extra pixel density of a 1440p can improve the experience....

During my time using the Xperia Z3 as my daily driver, and only charging it once every second day, the device never died before day two was over. This is with my typical smartphone use that includes reading websites, sending emails, social networking, messaging, photography, calls and more each day. Most phones require a charge every night, but the Xperia Z3 seems to be an exception. In the above three benchmarks, the Xperia Z3 boasts battery performance that’s relatively the same as the Xperia Z2....

Spotify started testing a voice-controlled device for cars back in 2019. Dubbed Car Thing, it was initially only available to a small group of invited Spotify Premium members in the US. The device represented Spotify’s first foray into hardware although the company insisted it was more about learning how people listen to music and podcasts in their vehicles than an indication of a move into hardware. A broader – yet still limited – rollout commenced in 2021 and this past February, Spotify made Car Thing a proper consumer device available to anyone (albeit with a $10 price hike)....

Spotify has become the latest tech company to announce organizational changes resulting in significant job cuts. Like many others in the tech sector, Spotify grew and invested heavily during the pandemic. Last year, Spotify’s operating expenses outpaced revenue growth by 2x. As Ek noted, that is unsustainable over the long-term in any climate but especially so during the current challenging macro environment. In hindsight, Ek said he was too ambitious in investing ahead of revenue growth....

Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 (2.60GHz) x2 2GB DDR2-1066 G.Skill (CAS 7-7-7-18) Asus P5Q Pro (Intel P45) OCZ GameXStream 700 watt Western Digital Black 500GB (SATA II) Western Digital Black 500GB (SATA II) Asus Radeon HD 4550 (256MB) QNAP TS-119P II x1 Western Digital Blue 500GB (SATA II) QNAP TS-219P II x2 Western Digital Blue 500GB (SATA II) Thecus N7700PRO x4 Western Digital Blue 500GB (SATA II) Synology DS712+ x2 Western Digital Blue 500GB (SATA II)...

In fact, things have gotten even easier. Synology NAS devices recently received a new tool called Web Assistant that helps guide you through the installation process without having to use the CD. With a declining use of optical drives, Synology certainly needed to find a more modern approach and it has. The Web Assistant is launched by typing “find.synology.com” in your web browser and this will locate any and all DiskStation devices on your local network....